The mystic Ior Bock gathered around him a flock of disciples in Goa and Finland. The colorful and sensational man was killed by a killer in his home, and the death struggle is now told in its entirety in a recent biography.
Finnish-Swedish mystic Ior Bock (1942-2010) i.e. the former Bror Holger Bertil Svedlin remembered as an eccentric artist, a colorful guide to Suomenlinna and a mythical sperm drinker burnt in the sun of Goa, who died in his home in Helsinki from eight brutal knife blows. One of the blows pierced the skull, and the knife broke, but the man’s legend lives on.
An incredible life is gathered in one cover Petri Räisänen and Ari Väntänen The Great Saga of Ior Bock to the work (Otava). The authors of the book themselves state on the pages that they do not know which details to believe in Bock’s stories. During his life, the mystic claimed to have had relationships with eye-catchers About Tom Jones To the party and to the King of Sweden Kaarle Kustaasen.
Bock attended Svenska Teatern’s theater school and during his life appeared in films, for example The gentlemen of Kiljunen (1981) and in the drama series The Iron Age (1982) as Ior Svedlin. However, he became known to the general public as a kind of “cult leader” who gathered disciples around him in India. Ior Bock is remembered differently for the saga of the Bock family he created, a fairy-tale story that emphasized passing on creative power to others by drinking sperm or vaginal fluids.
Bock himself claimed to have started from incest, and freely shared his family saga with anyone willing. In reality, he was the illegitimate child of a gardener from Porvoo, who was adopted into another family with his brother.
The mystic achieved a dubious reputation by showing off his skills. He was able to do a sauna knot, i.e. a demanding yoga position, in which he could take his penis in his mouth if he wanted to. According to the book, this is what he did, wherever and whenever he liked.
– Ior Bock always had horns, cocks, pussies and fucks in mind, Petri Räisänen, who wrote the book, admits on the pages of the book.
– Who wouldn’t? In them is the beginning of creation. The analysis of sexuality must be included in mythologies and religions. Attention must be paid to its fundamental creative power. Some play with it, others deny it. However, for Iori, sexuality was not at the level of porn magazines, it was about something completely different.
Ior Bock photographed in 1984. IL ARCHIVE
Cloud burning and stories
For an ordinary citizen, the mythological dimensions of Bock’s saga may be high-flying stuff, but the book points out that the large audience of his presentations consisted of uneducated men who came to Goa to party. While hanging out naked, they took Bock’s stories to heart, but shuddered at his sperm-drinking habit. Bock set the mood for the story by smoking cannabis, and according to Räisänen, he became violently addicted.
The book says that in 1984, Bock worried his close circle by stopping eating at Goa. His diet consisted mostly of yogurt, spinach, sperm and tea anyway, but at that time Bock was smoking a lot of strong hashish in the day shop and talking in a slur.
His drug use worried people who knew him.
– If you smoke a pipe 100–150 times a day, that’s an incredible amount. An inexperienced person will go into quite a cloud from just one blog. It’s hard to understand how people can do it even for one day. You have to be a really strong person physically and mentally to be able to handle such a huge dose of cloud. Ior was more or less able to do that, but there were quite a few flip-flops, Petri Räisänen describes in the book.
Ior Bock got a lot of publicity from the excavations of the Lemminkäinen temple, that is, the rock in Sipoon Gumbostrand mentioned in the saga of the Bock family. Bock himself did not participate in them in any way, but at the beginning he acted as the face of the excavations financed by Sipoon Säästöpankki and Lemminkäinen Oy. No significant temple has been found at the site so far, apart from an old ax blade from the Iron Age.
Ior Bock believed that the mystical temple of Lemminkäinen was located inside the rock in Sipoo. IL ARCHIVE
The book tells how Bock’s life took dark turns and deaths. A musician from the Kingston Wall band, who was inspired by his stories Petri Walli got confused and committed suicide by jumping from the roof, and his own brother had already died earlier in strange circumstances after the gun Bock threw on the bed went off, when the bullet hit the brother’s heart.
Charismatic Bock collected haters because of his mean-spirited comments and was attacked with knives on two occasions. In 1999, one of them caused quadriplegia and the loss of followers, and Bock became an elderly person unable to walk. Friend Juha Javanese saved his life after the attack at the Töölön home.
A gruesome death
In the last years, Ior Bock suffered from financial difficulties and bad health problems. Suffering from pain, the former guru needed round-the-clock care. According to the book, he got Indians as his assistants, and later as housekeepers hired by the city Abhi and By Nilesh in 2008. They fed and bathed a slender Bock and the other slept near him at night. Housekeepers also heard about Bock’s sperm drinking ritual and tried it themselves.
– He (Bock) said that I, too, could mix my sperm with yogurt or cheese and offer him a ‘surprise drink’, Abhi describes the customs of the house in the booklet.
An assistant named Nilesh argued with Iori about drinking sperm. According to the book, one of the housekeepers drifted into a psychotic-like state by smoking cannabis and heard her own and saw hallucinations. After returning from Goa in September 2010, Abhi realized that Nilesh might do something bad to Bock.
On October 23, 2010, Nilesh used a knife to deface a painting depicting Ior bock and told another housekeeper that he had killed a man in India.
– Killing me by hand is not difficult, he announced.
Nilesh picked up a bread knife and soon things started happening.
– Suddenly I heard Iori shouting: ‘hey, hey, hey!’. I went to see what happened. I watched as Nilesh pulled the knife out of Iori’s chest. Ior lay on the floor with bloody knife marks near his heart. He turned onto his side, his legs shaking for a moment. Then he was dead.
The killer told Abhi to call the police.
The italicized part is a direct quote from the book.
The police arrested them both. The police found out that the paralyzed elderly man had been brutally murdered with eight blows of a bread knife. One of the blows had hit the head so that the blade of the knife had broken. There had been only one fatal blow. The one that hit the heart.
The Helsinki district court defined Ior Bock’s death as a manslaughter. The killer did not receive a sentence for his act, because he was found innocent in a mental state examination. The court of appeal reached the same decision as the district court. Nilesh was once again able to return to his homeland as a completely free man.
Ior Bock’s life ended tragically at the age of 68, but his saga still has its fan base.
Ior Bock’s great saga (Otava) written by Petri Räisänen and Ari Väntänen will see the light of day on May 21.
